Quotes About Pride

I was no longer on my dignity.

If only it were possible to love without injury—fidelity isn't enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation.

Perhaps truth and humility go together; so many lies come from our pride

Such arrogant certainty,' said the serpent with relish. 'How pleasing that is to me. All the very worst sins are accomplished with such certainty: gluttony, wrath, lust… pride. No force in existence can compete with mortals in the grip of certainty.

It makes you feel sort of cheap and titchy. Like it's looking down at you, saying, I'm Canterbury Cathedral, who the hell are you?

The big problem with omnipotence is that it leads so easily to overconfidence….

Their belligerence in public places, their rudeness…there's almost a pride in ignorance here. Black employees refuse to wait on white customers in stores. They treat incompetence as though it's some kind of act of civil disobedience. I'm sick of it, Penn.

Our people think the land of liberty's their God-given

2. Faith and pride. If people think that sanctification adds anything to their justification, there is room for them to become spiritually prideful. At the very least, they can begin to congratulate themselves that they are less in need of God's sheer grace than they once were and no doubt less in need than other believers now are.

Finally, one would question the absurd idea that anyone would be proud to belong to a race that could create a hellish nightmare like "Gettysburg.

They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.

Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.

If you'd been born and raised in Palestine, you'd know that some people are born to suffer. And it never stops, for them. Not for a second. You'd know where real suffering comes from. It's the same place where love and freedom and pride are born. And it's the same place where those feelings and ideals die. That suffering never stops. We only pretend it does. We only tell ourselves it does, to make the kids stop whimpering in their sleep.

Arrogance is pride's calling card, and crowds everything with Self. Gratitude is humility's calling card, and is the space left inside for love.

A heart filled with greed, pride or hateful feelings is not free.

We stared at one another, his pride riding out to meet my irritation. Men. I liked Vinson, and he liked me, and we were ready to fight.

Yoksulluk ve gurur, kan kardeÅŸ gibidir. Fakat sonunda mutlaka biri diÄŸerini öldürür.

palavra máfia vem da palavra siciliana gabarolice. E se se perguntar a qualquer homem sério e que cometa crimes sérios para viver, ele dirá precisamente que é apenas isso, afinal, que nos move a todos: a ostentação e o orgulho. Mas nunca aprendemos. Talvez não seja possível violar leis sem que nos vangloriemos disso perante alguém. Talvez não seja possível ser bandido sem, de algum modo, se ser orgulhoso.

but he boasted about the buildings as if they were his own design.

There was so much bravery in that small package. The emotion that burned my eyes was love, the pure, pride-filled love of father for son. I loved him with all my heart in that second.

every pedestal is taller than the man who sits on it.

A man has to respect himself bofore he can respect anyone else.

pride was rising like new green

If you'd been born and raised in Palestine, you'd know that some people are born to suffer. And it never stops, for them. Not for a second. You'd know where real suffering comes from. It's the same place where love and freedom and pride are born.